John A. Weymark

John A. Weymark

Gertrude Conaway Chair in Social and Natural Sciences, Emeritus, and Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Manuscripts (excluding manuscripts prepared for double-blind refereeing)

  1. John A. Weymark, “William Godwin: An Early Practitioner of Backward Induction,” September 2024.

    Abstract: In commenting on the method employed when he composed his 1794 novel, Caleb Williams, William Godwin said that he developed the plot and prepared outlines of its three volumes in reverse order. It is argued that this method of composition anticipates some of the main features of the backward induction procedure used in decision theory and game theory to solve sequential decision problems.

  2. John A. Weymark, “Keeping It in the Family: Maria Edgeworth’s Precursor to the Hedonimeter,” September 2024.

    Abstract: The conventional wisdom among economists and philosophers is that in his 1881 monograph, Mathematical Psychics, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was the first to conceive of and describe a hedonimeter to measure happiness or pleasure. In this article, it is shown that his aunt, Maria Edgeworth, first described such a device in a short story called “The Mental Thermometer” that she wrote as a sixteen-year-old in 1784. A similar device, a “moral thermometer,” was also mentioned by Jeremy Bentham in the Traités de Législation Civile et Penale from 1802. The possible sources for Maria Edgeworth’s story and its publication history also are also considered, as is the possible inspiration for her nephew’s hedonimeter.

  3. Luís C. Calderón Gómez, Robert Talisse, and John A. Weymark, “Bruni and Sugden on Market Virtues,” November 2024.

    Abstract: According to classical liberalism, markets are instruments for the mutually advantageous voluntary exchange of goods and services among individuals who have conflicting interests. Some critics have used a virtue ethics understanding of behavior in markets to call for moral limits to markets because this classical view does not respect the internal value of human practices and the intrinsic motivations of individuals. In response, Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden have offered a virtue ethics defense of markets, thereby “reclaiming virtue ethics for economics.” We argue that their account needs further elaboration and clarification before it is possible to assess the soundness of their virtue-theoretic understanding of markets.

Archived Manuscript

  1. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “On John Harsanyi’s Defences of Utilitarianism,” Discussion Paper No. 80-13, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain, April 1980.

    Abstract: Harsanyi has advanced three arguments in defence of utilitarianism. One defence is based on the separability of the social-welfare function with respect to individual utilities, the second defence requires social and individual preferences to satisfy the expected utility hypothesis, while the third defence considers the choices that would be made if there were an equal chance of obtaining any position in society. We develop a framework in which these three defences may be compared, We demonstrate that with complete welfare information each of these proposals results in a different ordering of the social alternatives, and that none of these is classical utilitarianism.

Edited Books

  1. Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2008, xii + 460 pp. Paperback edition, 2010. Link to the publisher’s web page.
  2. Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Social Ethics and Normative Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm, Springer: Berlin and Heidelberg, 2011, x + 357 pp. Link to the publisher’s web page.

Edited Journal Symposia

  1. Gerald F. Gaus and John A. Weymark, eds., Symposium: The Legacy of John Rawls, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2005, Vol. 4, No. 2, June, pp. 155–248. Link to the publisher’s web page.
  2. John A. Weymark, ed., Symposium on Ken Binmore’s Natural Justice, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 1, February, pp. 5–96. Link to the publisher’s web page.
  3. Thibault Gajdos and John A. Weymark, eds., Symposium on Inequality and Risk, Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, Vol. 147, No. 4, July, pp. 1313–1651. Link to the publisher’s web page.
  4. Samir Okasha and John A. Weymark, eds., Symposium on Rational Choice and Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, 2016, Vol. 32, No. 2, July, pp. 171–352. Link to the publisher’s web page.

Editorial Introductions: Books

  1. Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism,” in Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2008, pp. 1–67. Link to the published version.
  2. Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics,” in Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Social Ethics and Normative Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm, Springer: Berlin and Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 1–18. Link to the published version.

Editorial Introductions: Journals

  1. John A. Weymark, “Introduction: The Legacy of John Rawls,” Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2005, Vol. 4, No. 2, June, Symposium: The Legacy of John Rawls, p. 155. Link to the published version.
  2. Thibault Gajdos and John A. Weymark, “Introduction to Inequality and Risk,” Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, Vol. 147, No. 4, July, Symposium on Inequality and Risk, pp. 1313–1330. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to Allan Gibbard’s Oligarchy Paper,” Review of Economic Design, 2014, Vol. 18, No. 1, March, pp. 1–2. Link to the published version.
  4. John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to Allan Gibbard’s Harvard Seminar Paper,” Economics and Philosophy, 2014, Vol. 30, No. 3, November, pp. 263–268. Link to the published version.
  5. Samir Okasha and John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to the Symposium on Rational Choice and Philosophy,” Economics and Philosophy, 2016, Vol. 32, No. 2, July, pp. 171–173. Link to the published version.

Journal Publications

  1. John A. Weymark, “‘Unselfishness’ and Prisoner’s Dilemmas,” Philosophical Studies, 1978, Vol. 34, No. 4, November, pp. 417–425. Link to the published version.
  2. John A. Weymark, “On Pareto-Improving Price Changes,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1978, Vol. 19, No. 2, December, pp. 338–346. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, “Optimality Conditions for Public and Private Goods,” Public Finance Quarterly, 1979, Vol. 7, No. 3, July, pp. 338–351. Link to the published version.
  4. John A. Weymark, “Optimal Taxation Theory and Excess Demand Functions,” Economics Letters, 1979, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 111–113. Link to the published version.
  5. John A. Weymark, “A Reconciliation of Recent Results in Optimal Taxation Theory,” Journal of Public Economics, 1979, Vol. 12, No. 2, October, pp. 171–189. Reprinted in Carsten Kowalczyk, ed., The Theory of Trade Policy Reform, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, U.K., 2001, pp. 436–454. Link to the published version.
  6. David Donaldson and John A. Weymark, “A Single-Parameter Generalization of the Gini Indices of Inequality,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1980, Vol. 22, No. 1, February, pp. 67–86. Link to the published version.
  7. John A. Weymark, “Money and Locke’s Theory of Property,” History of Political Economy, 1980, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer, pp. 282–290. Link to the published version.
  8. John A. Weymark, “Duality Results in Demand Theory,” European Economic Review, 1980, Vol. 14, No. 3, November, pp. 377–395. Link to the published version.
  9. John A. Weymark, “Welfare Optimal Tariff Revenues and Maximum Tariff Revenues,” Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d’Économique, 1980, Vol. 13, No. 4, November, pp. 615–631. Link to the published version.
  10. John A. Weymark, “On Sums of Production Set Frontiers,” Review of Economic Studies, 1981, Vol. 48, No. 1, January, pp. 179–183. Link to the published version.
  11. John A. Weymark, “Generalized Gini Inequality Indices,” Mathematical Social Sciences, 1981, Vol. 1, No. 4, August, pp. 409–430. Reprinted in Robert A. Becker, ed., The Economic Theory of Income Inequality, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, U.K., 2013, pp. 457–478. Link to the published version.
  12. Yrjö O. Vartia and John A. Weymark, “Four Revealed Preference Tables,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1981, Vol. 83, No. 3, pp. 408–418. Link to the published version.
  13. John A. Weymark, “Undominated Directions of Tax Reform,” Journal of Public Economics, 1981, Vol. 16, No. 3, December, pp. 343–369. Link to the published version.
  14. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “A Normative Approach to Industrial-Performance Evaluation and Concentration Indices,” European Economic Review, 1982, Vol. 19, No. 1, September, Special Issue on Market Competition, Conflict and Collusion, pp. 89–121. Link to the published version.
  15. Claude d’Aspremont, Alexis Jacquemin, Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz, and John A. Weymark, “On the Stability of Collusive Price Leadership,” Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d’Économique, 1983, Vol. 16, No. 1, February, pp. 17–25. Reprinted in Margaret E. Levenstein and Stephen W. Salant, eds., Cartels, Volume 1, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, U.K., 2007, pp. 655–663. Link to the published version.
  16. John A. Weymark, “Ethically Flexible Gini Indices for Income Distributions in the Continuum,” with David Donaldson, Journal of Economic Theory, 1983, Vol. 29, No. 2, April, pp. 353–358. Link to the published version.
  17. John A. Weymark, “Quasitransitive Rationalization and the Superset Property,” Mathematical Social Sciences, 1983, Vol. 6, No. 1, October, pp. 105–108. Link to the published version.
  18. John A. Weymark, “Arrow’s Theorem with Social Quasi-Orderings,” Public Choice, 1984, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 235–246. Link to the published version.
  19. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice with Interpersonal Utility Comparisons: A Diagrammatic Introduction,” International Economic Review, 1984, Vol. 25, No. 2, June, pp. 327–356. Link to the published version.
  20. John A. Weymark, “Majority-Rule Directions of Income Tax Reform and Second-Best Optimality,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1984, Vol. 86, No. 2, Special Issue on the Limits and Problems of Taxation, pp. 194–213. Reprinted in Finn R. Førsund and Seppo Honkapohja, eds., Limits and Problems of Taxation, Macmillan: London and Basingstoke, St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1985, pp. 96–115. Link to the published version.
  21. John A. Weymark, “Money-Metric Utility Functions,” International Economic Review, 1985, Vol. 26, No. 1, February, pp. 219–232. Link to the published version.
  22. Satya R. Chakravarty, Bhaskar Dutta, and John A. Weymark, “Ethical Indices of Income Mobility,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1985, Vol. 2, No. 1, May, pp. 1–21. Link to the published version.
  23. John A. Weymark, “Remarks on the First Welfare Theorem with Nonordered Preferences,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1985, Vol. 36, No. 1, June, pp. 156–159. Link to the published version.
  24. John A. Weymark, “A Reduced-Form Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Problem,” Journal of Public Economics, 1986, Vol. 30, No. 2, July, pp. 199–217. Link to the published version.
  25. John A. Weymark, “Bunching Properties of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1986, Vol. 3, No. 3, September, pp. 213–232. Link to the published version.
  26. David Donaldson and John A. Weymark, “Properties of Fixed-Population Poverty Indices,” International Economic Review, 1986, Vol. 27, No. 3, October, pp. 667– 688. Link to the published version.
  27. Allan Gibbard, Aanund Hylland, and John A. Weymark, “Arrow’s Theorem with a Fixed Feasible Alternative,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1987, Vol. 4, No. 2, June, pp. 105–115. Link to the published version.
  28. John A. Weymark, “Comparative Static Properties of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes,” Econometrica,, 1987, Vol. 55, No. 5, September, pp. 1165–1185. Link to the published version.
  29. David Donaldson and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice in Economic Environments,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1988, Vol. 46, No. 2, December, pp. 291–308. Link to the published version.
  30. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “A Welfarist Proof of Arrow’s Theorem,” Recherches Économiques de Louvain, 1990, Vol. 56, No. 3–4, Special Issue in Honor of Professor A. Sen: Alternatives to Welfarism, pp. 259–286. Link to the published version.
  31. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, “Generalized Median Social Welfare Functions,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1993, Vol. 10, No. 1, January, pp. 17–33. Link to the published version.
  32. John A. Weymark, “Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem and the Weak Pareto Principle,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1993, Vol. 10, No. 3, July, pp. 209–221. Link to the published version.
  33. John A. Weymark, “Further Remarks on Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem and the Weak Pareto Principle,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1995, Vol. 12, No. 1, February, pp. 87–92. Link to the published version.
  34. John A. Weymark, “An Alternative Proof of Ben Porath and Gilboa’s Generalized Gini Characterization Theorem,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1995, Vol. 66, No. 2, August, pp. 573–580. Link to the published version.
  35. John A. Weymark, “John Harsanyi’s Contributions to Social Choice and Welfare Economics,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1995, Vol. 12, No. 4, October, pp. 313–318. Link to the published version.
  36. Arja H. Turunen-Red and John A. Weymark, “Paretian Aggregation of Asymmetric Utility Functionals,” Economics Letters, 1996, Vol. 53, No. 1, October, pp. 39–45. Link to the published version.
  37. John A. Weymark, “Aggregating Ordinal Probabilities on Finite Sets,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1997, Vol. 75, No. 2, August, pp. 407–432. Link to the published version.
  38. Kai-Yuen Tsui and John A. Weymark, “Social Welfare Orderings for Ratio-Scale Measurable Utilities,” Economic Theory, 1997, Vol. 10, No. 2, August, pp. 241–256. Link to the published version.
  39. David Donaldson and John A. Weymark, “A Quasiordering is the Intersection of Orderings,” Journal of Economic Theory, 1998, Vol. 78, No. 2, February, pp. 382–387. Link to the published version.
  40. Edi Karni and John A. Weymark, “An Informationally Parsimonious Impartial Observer Theorem,” Social Choice and Welfare, 1998, Vol. 15, No. 3, May, pp. 321-332. Link to the published version.
  41. John A. Weymark, “Welfarism on Economic Domains,” Mathematical Social Sciences, 1998, Vol. 36, No. 3, December, Special Issue on Axiomatics of Resource Allocation II, pp. 251–268. Link to the published version.
  42. Arja H. Turunen-Red and John A. Weymark, “Linear Aggregation of SSB Utility Functionals,” Theory and Decision, 1999, Vol. 46, No. 3, June, pp. 277–290. Link to the published version.
  43. Michel Le Breton and John A. Weymark, “Strategy-Proof Social Choice with Continuous Separable Preferences,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1999, Vol. 32, No. 1, July, pp. 47–85. Link to the published version.
  44. John A. Weymark, “Decomposable Strategy-Proof Social Choice Functions,” Japanese Economic Review, 1999, Vol. 50, No. 3, September, pp. 343–355. Link to the published version.
  45. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem for State-Contingent Alternatives,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1999, Vol. 32, No. 3, November, pp. 365–387. Link to the published version.
  46. John A. Weymark, “Sprumont’s Characterization of the Uniform Rule When All Single-Peaked Preferences are Admissible,” Review of Economic Design, 1999, Vol. 4, No. 4, November, pp. 389–393. Link to the published version.
  47. John A. Weymark, “A Generalization of Moulin’s Pareto Extension Theorem,” Mathematical Social Sciences, 2000, Vol. 39, No. 2, March, pp. 235–240. Link to the published version.
  48. Anna B. Khmelnitskaya and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice with Independent Subgroup Utility Scales,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2000, Vol. 17, No. 4, August, pp. 739–748. Link to the published version.
  49. Michel Le Breton and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice with Analytic Preferences,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2002, Vol. 19, No. 3, July, pp. 637–657. Link to the published version.
  50. Shigehiro Serizawa and John A. Weymark, “Efficient Strategy-Proof Exchange and Minimum Consumption Guarantees,” Journal of Economic Theory, 2003, Vol. 109, No. 2, April, Special Festschrift Issue for Karl Shell, pp. 246–263. Link to the published version.
  51. John A. Weymark, “Generalized Gini Indices of Equality of Opportunity,” Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, Vol. 1, No. 1, April, pp. 5–24. Link to the published version.
  52. Lars Ehlers and John A. Weymark, “Candidate Stability and Nonbinary Social Choice,” Economic Theory, 2003, Vol. 22, No. 2, September, pp. 233–243. Link to the published version.
  53. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Financing Education Using Optimal Redistributive Taxation,” Journal of Public Economics, 2003, Vol. 87, No. 11, October, Special Issue: International Seminar on Public Economics Conference on Public Economics and Redistribution, June 22–24th, 2000, pp. 2549–2569. Link to the published version.
  54. John A. Weymark, “Shared Consumption: A Technological Analysis,” Annales d’Économie et de Statistique, 2004, Nos. 75–76, July–December, Special Issue on Public Economics, pp. 175–195. Link to the published version.
  55. Thibault Gajdos and John A. Weymark, “Multidimensional Generalized Gini Indices,” Economic Theory, 2005, Vol. 26, No. 3, October, pp. 471–496. Link to the published version.
  56. John A. Weymark, “Measurement Theory and the Foundations of Utilitarianism,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2005, Vol. 25, Nos. 2–3, December, Special Issue on the History of Social Choice, pp. 527–555. Link to the published version.
  57. John A. Weymark, “Strategy-Proofness and the Tops-Only Property,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, Vol. 10, No. 1, February, pp. 7–26. Link to the published version.
  58. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Public Good Provision and the Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation,” International Economic Review, 2008, Vol. 49, No. 1, February, pp. 255–290. Link to the published version.
  59. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes,” Journal of Public Economics, 2008, Vol. 92, No. 7, July, pp. 1765–1771. Link to the published version.
  60. Thibault Gajdos, John A. Weymark, and Claudio Zoli, “Shared Destinies and the Measurement of Social Risk Equity,” Annals of Operations Research, 2010, Vol. 176, No. 1, April, Special Issue on the Theory and Application of Uncertainty, pp. 409–424. Link to the published version.
  61. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “How Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes Change when the Distribution of the Population Changes,” Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95, Nos. 11–12, December, Special Issue: International Seminar on Public Economics Conference on Normative Tax Theory, pp. 1239–1247. Link to the published version.
  62. John A. Weymark, “A Unified Approach to Strategy-Proofness for Single-Peaked Preferences,” SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2011, Vol. 2, No. 4, December, Special Issue in Honor of Salvador Barberà. Part I: On Strategy- Proofness, pp. 529–550. Link to the published version.
  63. Katherine Cuff, Sunghoon Hong, Jesse A. Schwartz, Quan Wen, and John A. Weymark, “Dominant Strategy Implementation with a Convex Product Set of Valuations,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, Vol. 39, Nos. 2–3, July, Special Issue in Honour of Maurice Salles on Developments in Social Choice and Welfare Theories, pp. 567– 597. Link to the published version.
  64. Walter Bossert, Chloe X. Qi, and John A. Weymark, “Extensive Social Choice and the Measurement of Group Fitness in Biological Hierarchies,” Biology and Philosophy, 2013, Vol. 28, No. 1, January, pp. 75–98. Link to the published version.
  65. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation with a Publicly Provided Input and a Nonlinear Production Technology,’ Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, Vol. 15, No. 4, August, pp. 519–546. Link to the published version.
  66. Walter Bossert, Chloe X. Qi, and John A. Weymark, “Measuring Group Fitness in a Biological Hierarchy: An Axiomatic Social Choice Approach,” Economics and Philosophy, 2013, Vol. 29, No. 3, November, pp. 301–323. Link to the published version.
  67. Felix Bierbrauer, Craig Brett, and John A. Weymark, “Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, Vol. 82, November, pp. 292–311. Link to the published version.
  68. Samir Okasha, John A. Weymark, and Walter Bossert, “Inclusive Fitness Maximization: An Axiomatic Approach,” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2014, Vol. 350, June 7, pp. 24–31. Link to the published version.
  69. John A. Weymark, “Must One Be an Ogre to Rationally Prefer Aiding the Nearby to the Distant Needy?” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2014, Vol. 42, No. 3, Summer, pp. 230–252. Link to the published version.
  70. John A. Weymark, “Cognitive Diversity, Binary Decisions, and Epistemic Democracy,” Episteme, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 4, December, pp. 497–511. Link to the published version.
  71. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Voting Over Selfishly Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules with a Minimum-Utility Constraint,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2016, Vol. 67, December, pp. 18–31. Link to the published version.
  72. Michael Morreau and John A. Weymark, “Measurement Scales and Welfarist Social Choice,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2016, Vol. 75, December, Special Issue in Honor of R. Duncan Luce, pp. 127–136. Link to the published version.
  73. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Voting Over Selfishly Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2017, Vol. 101, January, Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard, pp. 172–188. Link to the published version.
  74. John A. Weymark, “Conundrums for Nonconsequentialists,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, Vol. 48, No. 2, February, pp. 269–294. Link to the published version.
  75. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Reducing the Dimensionality of a Selfishly Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Problem,” Economic Theory Bulletin, 2018, Vol. 6, No. 2, October, pp. 157–169. Link to the published version.
  76. Thomas Choate, John A. Weymark, and Alan E. Wiseman, “Partisan Strength and Legislative Bargaining,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2019, Vol. 31, No. 1, January, pp. 6–45. Link to the published version. Supplementary material.
  77. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings without Commitment,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019, Vol. 21, No. 1, February, pp. 5–43. Link to the published version. Supplementary material.
  78. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Majority Rule and Selfishly Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules with Discrete Skill Levels,” Social Choice and Welfare, Special Issue: In Memory of Kenneth J. Arrow, 2020, Vol. 54, No. 2–3, March, pp. 337–362. Link to the published version.
  79. Thomas Choate, John A. Weymark, and Alan E. Wiseman, “Legislative Bargaining and Partisan Delegation,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020, Vol. 32, No. 2, April, pp. 289–311. Link to the published version. Supplementary material.
  80. Paul H. Edelman and John A. Weymark, “Dominant Strategy Implementation and Zero Length Cycles,” Economic Theory, 2021, Vol. 72, No. 4, November, pp. 1091–1120. Link to the published version.
  81. Bhaskar Dutta, Anirban Kar, and John A. Weymark, “Strategy-Proof Club Formation with Indivisible Club Facilities,” Review of Economic Design, Well-Designed Incentive Schemes: Special Issue in Honor of Semih Koray (Part 1), 2022, Vol. 26, No. 3, September, pp. 261–284. Link to the published version.
  82. Sarah E. Friedman and John A. Weymark, “Precedent-Based Judgment Aggregation in the US Supreme Court,” Revue Économique, Special Issue in Homage to Philippe Mongin, 2022, Vol. 73, No. 6, November, pp. 1069–1091. Link to the published version.
  83. John A. Weymark, “Edith Wharton’s ‘The Last Asset’ and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty,” American Literary Realism, 2024, Vol. 56, No. 2, Winter, pp. 160–172. Link to the published version.
  84. Paul H. Edelman, Martin Van der Linden, and John A. Weymark, “The Core of a Transferable Utility Game as the Solution to a Public Good Market Demand Problem,” Mathematical Programming Series B, Special Issue: Mathematical Optimization for Fair Social Decisions, 2024, Vol. 203, Nos. 1–2, January, pp. 687–702. Link to the published version.
  85. Edi Karni and John A. Weymark, “Impartiality and Relative Utilitarianism,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2024, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 1–18. Link to the published version. Open access.
  86. Shigehiro Serizawa and John A. Weymark, “Boundedness of the Range of a Strategy-Proof Social Choice Function,” Games and Economic Behavior, 2025, Vol. 149, January, pp. 164–169. Link to the published version. Open access.
  87. John A. Weymark, “Vaihinger’s Fictionalism Meets Binmore’s Knowledge-as-Commitment,” Homo Oeconomicus, Special Issue on “Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk: Modernizing Epicurean Philosophy,” forthcoming. Link to the published version.

Articles in Edited Volumes

  1. Maurice Marchand, Pierre Pestieau, and John A. Weymark, “Discount Rates for Public Enterprises in the Presence of Alternative Financial Constraints,” in Dieter Bös, Richard A. Musgrave, and Jack Wiseman, eds., Public Production, Supplementum 2 of the Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Selected Proceedings of the International Seminar in Public Economics, Bonn, August, 1981, Springer-Verlag: Vienna and New York, 1982, pp. 27–50. Link to the published version. Maurice Marchand, Pierre Pestieau, and John A. Weymark, “Discount Rates for Public Enterprises in the Presence of Alternative Financial Constraints: A Correction,” Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1984, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 289–291. Link to the published version.
  2. Satya R. Chakravarty and John A. Weymark, “Axiomatizations of the Entropy Numbers Equivalent Index of Industrial Concentration,” in Wolfgang Eichhorn, ed., Measurement in Economics: Theory and Applications of Economic Indices, Physica-Verlag: Heidelberg, 1988, pp. 383–397. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, “A Reconsideration of the Harsanyi–Sen Debate on Utilitarianism,” in Jon Elster and John E. Roemer, eds., Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1991, pp. 255–320. Link to the published version.
  4. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, “An Alternative Characterization of Paretian Generalized Median Social Welfare Functions,” in W. Erwin Diewert, Klaus Spremann, and Frank Stehling, eds., Mathematical Modelling in Economics: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 1993, pp. 65–74. Link to the published version.
  5. John A. Weymark, “Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem with Alternative Pareto Principles,” in Wolfgang Eichhorn, ed., Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 1994, pp. 869–887. Link to the published version.
  6. Michel Le Breton and John A. Weymark, “An Introduction to Arrovian Social Welfare Functions on Economic and Political Domains,” in Norman Schofield, ed., Collective Decision-Making: Social Choice and Political Economy, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, Dordrecht, and London, 1996, pp. 25–61. Link to the published version.
  7. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, “Utility in Social Choice,” in Salvador Barberà, Peter J. Hammond, and Christian Seidl, eds., Handbook of Utility Theory. Volume 2: Extensions, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, Dordrecht, and London, 2004, pp. 1099–1177. Link to the published version.
  8. John A. Weymark, “Shadow Prices for a Nonconvex Public Technology in the Presence of Private Constant Returns,” in Ulrich Schmidt and Stefan Traub, eds., Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice, and Welfare. A Festschrift for Christian Seidl, Springer: Dordrecht, 2005, pp. 61–71. Link to the published version.
  9. John A. Weymark, “The Normative Approach to the Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality,” in Francesco Farina and Ernesto Savaglio, eds., Inequality and Economic Integration, Routledge: London, 2006, pp. 303–328. Link to the published version.
  10. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “Social Aggregation and the Expected Utility Hypothesis,” in Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2008, pp. 136–183. Link to the published version.
  11. Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, and John A. Weymark, “Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty,” in Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Naoki Yoshihara, and Yongsheng Xu, eds., Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications. Essays in Honor of Kotaro Suzumura, Springer: Berlin and Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 195–213. Link to the published version.
  12. Alain Trannoy and John A. Weymark, “Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism,” in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, eds., Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen. Volume I: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009, pp. 262–279. Link to the published version.
  13. Michel Le Breton and John A. Weymark, “Arrovian Social Choice Theory on Economic Domains,” in Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya K. Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds., Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 2, North-Holland: Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 191–299. Link to the published version.
  14. John A. Weymark, “On Kolm’s Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory,” in Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, and John A. Weymark, eds., Social Ethics and Normative Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm, Springer: Berlin and Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 279–301. Link to the published version.
  15. John A. Weymark, “Social Choice Theory,” in Gerald Gaus and Fred D’Agostino, eds., The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Thought, Routledge: New York and Abingdon, UK, 2013, pp. 679–690. Link to the published version.
  16. John A. Weymark, “Social Welfare Functions,” in Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford, 2016, pp. 126–159. Link to the published version.
  17. Thibault Gajdos, John A. Weymark, and Claudio Zoli, “Feasible Shared Destiny Risk Distributions,” in Indraneel Dasgupta and Manipushpak Mitra, eds., Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization: Essays in Honour of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty, Springer: Singapore, 2019, pp 37–49. Link to the published version.
  18. Paul H. Edelman and John A. Weymark, “Unrestricted Domain Extensions of Dominant Strategy Implementable Allocation Functions,” in Walter Trockel, ed., Social Design: Essays in Memory of Leonid Hurwicz, Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 261–275. Link to the published version.
  19. Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, “Matthews–Moore Single- and Double-Crossing,” in Jean-François Laslier, Hervé Moulin, M. Remzi Sanver, and William S. Zwicker, eds., The Future of Economic Design: The Continuing Development of a Field as Envisioned by Its Researchers, Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 461–467. Link to the published version.
  20. Luís C. Calderón Gómez, Robert Talisse, and John A. Weymark, “Market Virtues and Respect for Human Dignity,” in Reiko Gotoh, ed., Dignity, Freedom and Justice, Springer: Singapore, 2024, pp. 183–203. Link to the published version. Open access.
  21. Jacob M. Nebel and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice Theory,” in Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D’Agostino, and Ryan Muldoon, eds., The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Thought, Second Edition, Routledge: New York and Abingdon, UK, 2025, pp. 676–687. Link to the published version.

Interview

  1. Matthew D. Adler and John A. Weymark, “Allan Gibbard,” in Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles, eds., Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory, Volume 1, Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 171–207. Link to the published version.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries

  1. John A. Weymark, “John Charles Harsanyi,” in Noretta Koertge, ed., New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 3, Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, 2008, pp. 247– 253. Link to the published version.
  2. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, “Social Choice (New Developments),” in Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Volume 7, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke and New York, 2008, pp. 594–603. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, “Arrow’s Theorem,” in James E. Crimmins, ed., The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Bloomsbury Academic: London and New York, 2013, pp. 21–23. Link to the published version.
  4. John A. Weymark, “John C. Harsanyi,” in James E. Crimmins, ed., The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Bloomsbury Academic: London and New York, 2013, pp. 213–216. Link to the published version.

Commentaries

  1. John A. Weymark, “Discussion of Kolm’s Paper” [“Rational Just Social Choice” by Serge-Christophe Kolm], in Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya K. Sen, and Kotaro Suzumura, eds., Social Choice Re-Examined: Volume 2, International Economic Association Conference Volume No. 117, Macmillan: London and Basingstoke, St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1996, pp. 197–201. Link to the published version.
  2. John A. Weymark, “Comment” [on “Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach” by Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson], in Jacques Silber, ed., Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, Dordrecht, and London, 1999, pp. 157–161. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, “Commentary on “From Unidimensional to Multidimensional Inequality: A Review” [by Francesco Andreoli and Claudio Zoli],” Metron, 2020, Vol. 78, No. 1, April, pp. 55–59. Link to the published version.

Book Reviews

  1. John A. Weymark, Review of: W. Hildenbrand and A. P. Kirman, Introduction to Equilibrium Analysis, Kyklos, 1977, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 148–149. Link to the published version.
  2. John A. Weymark, Review of: Michael D. Intriligator, ed., Frontiers of Quantitative Economics: Volume IIIA, Kyklos, 1978, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 714–718. Link to the published version.
  3. John A. Weymark, Review of: John C. Harsanyi, Rational Behavior and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations and John C. Harsanyi, Essays on Ethics, Social Behavior, and Scientific Explanation, Kyklos, 1979, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 843–845. Link to the published version.
  4. John A. Weymark, Review of: Kenneth J. Arrow and Leonid Hurwicz, eds., Studies in Resource Allocation Processes, Kyklos, 1980, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 164–166. Link to the published version.
  5. John A. Weymark, Review of: Peter C. Ordeshook and Kenneth A. Shepsle, eds., Political Equilibrium, Kyklos, 1984, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 146–147. Link to the published version.
  6. John A. Weymark, Review of: Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Maurice Salles, eds., Social Choice and Welfare, Kyklos, 1984, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 499–502. Link to the published version.
  7. John A. Weymark, Review of: Amartya Sen, The Standard of Living, Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1988, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 314–317. Link to the published version.
  8. John A. Weymark, Review of: Serge Wibaut, Tax Reform in Disequilibrium Economies, Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1990, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 312–314. Link to the published version.
  9. John A. Weymark, Review of: Johann K. Brunner, Theory of Equitable Taxation: Normative Foundation and Distributive Consequences of Income Taxation, Social Choice and Welfare, 1991, Vol. 8, No. 4, October, pp. 371–372. Link to the published version.
  10. John A. Weymark, Review of: Roger Guesnerie, A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation, Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, Vol. 35, No. 2, June, pp. 798–799. Link to the published version.
  11. John A. Weymark, Review of: Serge-Christophe Kolm, Modern Theories of Justice, Ethics, 1999, Vol. 109, No. 3, April, pp. 666–668. Link to the published version.
  12. John A. Weymark, Review of: Ken Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract. Volume II: Just Playing, Economica, 2000, Vol. 67, No. 268, November, pp. 608–610. Link to the published version.
  13. John A. Weymark, Review of: Fuad Aleskerov, Arrovian Aggregation Models, Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2001, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 348–350. Link to the published version.
  14. John A. Weymark, Review of: Donald G. Saari, Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected, Journal of Economic Literature, 2003, Vol. 41, No. 2, June, pp. 587–589. Link to the published version.
  15. John A. Weymark, Review of: Hervé J. Moulin, Fair Division and Collective Welfare, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, Vol. 3, No. 2, August, pp. 183–186. Link to the published version.

Journalism

  1. John A. Weymark, “Alvorada lá no Morro, Que Beleza” (“Dawn There on the Hill, What a Beauty”), Exame CEO, 2010, No. 5, April, Special Issue on Growth (Crescimento), pp. 52–55. Link to the published version. This article is a Portuguese translation and edited version of John A. Weymark, “Pro-Poor Growth.’’ The Portuguese title, which was chosen by the publisher, comes from a well-known Brazilian song by Angenor de Oliveira (known as Cartola).